‘Death panels’ and the health insurance industry
And that is the really sad part about it, people who the industry have set in their sights as "expendable in the name of profit" think that by protecting the status quo and the profits of the true elite, they are somehow protecting themselves from the evil communists. And some of the morons who are screaming the loudest are on Medicare! I have even heard veterans trashing "health care for all" as a communist plot in the halls of the VA Hospital.
I just don't get it. Are Amerikans really that dense?
Puffing on his cigar, grinning from ear to ear, he takes a few extra moments to savor the beautiful irony of the death panel issue. It has tickled him no end because he knows that if any death panels actually exist in the US, they have been created by the insurance industry itself.
Of course, the health insurance industry doesn’t call them death panels. No, they call them “HMOs” and “managed care,” and their purpose is to deny benefits to the sick and the elderly whenever possible, even if the patient’s claim is valid, even if it means the patient will die.
The executive has overseen the health insurance industry “death panel” guidelines. He knows how much money they have saved his company, and he feels the sublime contentment of a plan executed to perfection.
Now, the very people that his policies are designed to exploit are blindly trying to destroy a plan that would provide them with better health care. Perfect, he thinks, just perfect.
And that is the really sad part about it, people who the industry have set in their sights as "expendable in the name of profit" think that by protecting the status quo and the profits of the true elite, they are somehow protecting themselves from the evil communists. And some of the morons who are screaming the loudest are on Medicare! I have even heard veterans trashing "health care for all" as a communist plot in the halls of the VA Hospital.
I just don't get it. Are Amerikans really that dense?
